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Informationen zum Autor Rosaria Munson is Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College where she has been teaching since 1990. Klappentext This collection - the first of two volumes - is dedicated to the historical component of Herodotus' Histories and includes important previously published essays! some translated into English for the first time! which discuss his historical method! sources! narrative art! literary antecedents! intellectual background! and political ideology. Zusammenfassung This collection - the first of two volumes - is dedicated to the historical component of Herodotus' Histories and includes important previously published essays, some translated into English for the first time, which discuss his historical method, sources, narrative art, literary antecedents, intellectual background, and political ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Antecedents, Sources, Credibility, and Historiê 1: Arnaldo Momigliano: The Place of Herodotus in the History of Historiography 2: Robert L. Fowler: Herodotus and His Contemporaries Herodotus and Oral Tradition 3: Nino Luraghi: The stories before the Histories: Folktale and Traditional Narrative in Herodotus 4: J. A. S. Evans: Oral Tradition in Herodotus 5: Harriet Flower: Herodotus and Delphic Traditions about Croesus Causation, Patterning, and the Meaning of History 6: Henry Immerwahr: Aspects of Historical Causation in Herodotus 7: Donald Lateiner: Herodotean Historiographical Patterning: the Constitutional Debate 8: Matthew R. Christ: Herodotean Kings and Historical Inquiry Narratology 9: Irene F. D. De Jong: Narratological Aspects of the Histories of Herodotus The Uses of History 10: Hermann Strasburger: Herodotus and Periclean Athens 11: Charles W. Fornara: Herodotus Perspective 12: Philip A. Stadter: Herodotus and the Athenian Archê Look at his End 13: Deborah Boedeker: Protesilaos and the End of Herodotus Histories 14: Carolyn Dewald: Wanton Kings, Pickled Heroes, and Gnomic Founding Fathers: Strategies of Meaning at the End of Herodotus' Histories Bibliography of Works Cited Acknowledgements Index ...
